In this timely essay for Lent, Columbia law professor Tim Wu writes that in a culture in which we want everything to be convenient, we must never forget the "joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not...

Randall Balmer, in this essay in Reflections, from Yale Divinity School, argues that Protestants, who have overly-succumbed to rationalism, need to recover as sense of enchantment. It can be found in the eucharist.

It is difficult to determine whether the political left or the political right produces more unfocused, reactive anger. Martha Nussbaum describes Nelson Mandala's repudiation of anger for patient effort.

"In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives," Georges Bernanos. This is the message of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Read the words of experience of someone who has seen and...

In this address, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams speaks of being disciples: "The true disciple is an expectant person, always taking for granted that there is something about to break through."

Soren Kierkegaard's mother nicknamed him fork because he liked to poke at people. In this essay, Gordon Marino, director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library, writes that the fork was often pointed at our capacity for self-deception.

In 1991, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was, he says, "a drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol." Jailed for second degree murder, that could very well have been the end of the story. But it wasn't. Instead...